Explore Nintendo's how-to guides about our systems, setting parental controls on your child's gaming system, software rating information, accounts for kids, and enhancing your gameplay with amiibo. Nintendo offers a wide variety of tools to help parents on Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Wii and Wii mini, and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Setting up parental controls is easy, and is restricted by a 4-digit PIN which you can use to make changes to the settings at any time. If your PIN is ever forgotten, resetting it is easy with new self-service options via email (available on Nintendo 3DS family systems and the Wii U), or with our online tool.